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I am such a sucker for a pixel fonts and Departure Mono is no exception.
Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.
Oh and there’s a playable Breakout game at the bottom of the page if you scroll all the way down.
Tags: design · typography
Online street maps and satellite views of China don’t align because the Chinese government mandates the use of a “confidentiality algorithm” that adds random offsets ranging from 50-500 meters to latitudes & longitudes.
It’s my unfortunate duty to inform you that, once again, It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.
What impacted the Earth 66 million years ago at Chicxulub and caused the extinction of 75% of all species of life? A new analysis suggests it was an asteroid from the outer reaches of the solar system.
London’s clean air zone was meant to reduce car pollution but also had another effect: more active kids. “Instead of being chauffeured to school by their parents, the students started walking, biking, scootering, or taking public transit.”
“A previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was probably in his early teens has been uncovered at a library in Germany.” 12 minutes of new Mozart in the 21st century, what a time to be alive.
The newest season of The Great British Bake Off premieres on Netflix next week (Sept 27). Look at all those fresh faces — I love them already.
This 8-minute video of a drone’s eye tour of the coast of Antarctica is just flat-out gorgeous.
[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2015.]
Tags: Antarctica · timeless posts · video
A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”, has long been publicly unavailable but is now on YouTube.
I love these covers designed by Rodrigo Corral for Nathaniel Mackey’s poetry collection Double Trio. You will likely recognize some of the other covers designed by Corral over the years.
Tags: book covers · books · design · Double Trio · Nathaniel Mackey · poetry · Rodrigo Corral
Oh hey, a new book from Oliver Burkeman coming out soon: Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.
Serena Rios McRae makes hand-carved stamps out of pink erasers and recently stamped all 185 erasers onto one sheet of paper.
A man named Alan Adler invented both the Aerobie Flying Ring and the AeroPress Coffee Maker.
